This Week’s Links (weekly)
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Heart Attacks In Men Associated With Childhood Sexual Abuse
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A Chance for New Directions in Child Abuse Prevention?
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Tanya Young Williams: My Confession and How to Protect Your Child from Pedophiles like Sandusky
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Nicole offers up some good suggestions, highlighted by this tip: 7. Do prioritize small gestures. Last year, I had a miscarriage around the holidays, and I still remember which friends made an extra effort to show love and support. It didn’t take much — literally, an Instagram direct message made me cry out of gratitude…
Penn State scandal: How what happened in State College forced me to confront my own abuse tags: CA Protecting Our Children: Clues to Sexual Predation tags: CA Child abuse: We’re making the problem worse tags: CA Boy thought abuse was “normal” tags: CA Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
So, maybe Steven’s suggestion to start with a shower meditation might work for some of you who struggle like me. I’m going to try it, assuming I remember to actually do it instead of rushing to get finished and on to the next thing!
How do you incorporate mindfulness or meditation into your daily activities? Does it help you?
The Extra Stigma of Mental Illness for African-Americans Barriers to Help: Q&A With a Mental Health Counselor What Does Mental Health Advocacy Mean To You? Upsurge In Depression And Suicide Among American Workers During The Pandemic And What Needs To Be Done What I Wish I Had Said about Mental Health and Suicide 10 Virtual…
Reagan’s son opens up about sex abuse tags: CA Jerry Sandusky trial: I wish I’d paid more attention to one young man’s pain tags: CA In child sexual abuse, strangers aren’t the greatest danger, experts say tags: CA When Someone Really Listens, We Heal tags: CA 4 Ways To Help Your Man Fight Depression tags:…
Those folks need the opportunity to see another side to the story, and the more people who can safely tell their stories, the more we can let those folks know that they are, in fact, not alone.
If I’ve learned one thing from having this website for close to 20 years and being active on various social media platforms, it’s that you never know who is reading, and how it might impact them. Some people will tell you, and others will never mention it, but they are reading it. Would you rather be the person who helped someone feel less alone, and provided some hope, or the person who shut them down?
I know which one I have chosen.